They stung, anyway

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/04/2015

 This Firstpost piece says Giriraj Singh had asked phones and cameras be switched off for an "informal of-the-record" conversation" before he made the had-Sonia-been-a-Nigerian remark. Don't sting me, he had also warned. But in these days of multiple recording devices, does something called 'off the record' have any meaning?